The Tarnished Wife

The missing habit

Reza looked at Rara's back as the two lay on one bed. The wife is completely different. There was no talk from the two, Rara's lips clenched without a word from her tiny lips. He only answered what Reza asked without starting the conversation first, but usually when Reza came home from work, the wife never missed asking about her work.

Reza took a long breath. Usually Rara can not sleep if not in his arms.

“Honey, you've slept?” ask Reza lirih.

Rara was silent and did not answer. Behind it, the tears never stopped. He wiped the tears immediately with a cloth that covered the pillow he used to support his head.

“I'm sorry, Honey. Sorry if I spoke in a high tone.” Reza cannot be angry at Rara, because he knows that he has a mistake.

“You can go anywhere, but please come home when I'm going home. I'm really worried about you, honey. Since morning I've been calling but your phone is off. I worry about you like crazy.” Reza's voice sounded soft and trembling.

“I went back and forth between the apartment and the factory to check on you, but you weren't around. I'm really worried.”

Behind her husband's body, Rara, who had not slept, heard all Reza's words. The tears are back. He could feel the sound of that sound. He could feel the regret of his husband. He could feel how much Reza loved him. She knew that her husband had made a mistake, but what he was doing was out of her control. Should he forgive? Rara's heart was so full.

“Honey,” call Reza smirk and touch the shoulder of Rara who fell asleep tilted behind her. “I want to hug you.”

Rara is powerless. He turned his body and looked at the husband's face with teary eyes. Rara hugged the body and Reza immediately accepted the hug tightly.

“I'm worried about you, darling.” Reza was crying on Rara's shoulder.

They hugged tightly on the bed, where they combined love.

Rara was crying too. “Don't ignore me, Brother! You are too busy.”

“Sorry, Dear.” Reza thought, if the change of the wife happened because he did not accompany her to the streets while in this city, so Rara had to walk alone.

Rara loosened that hug. ”Why are you so busy that there is no time with me? Is there anything I don't know?”

Deg

Rara's words suddenly made Reza's heart seem to stop. Did Rara know of her marriage to Sarasmanda, her former secretary?

Reza looked at Rara's crying face. He wiped away the water that fell on that smooth cheek. He tries to calm down to hide what Rara should not know. She wants to keep Rara at her side and she wants Manda to stay with her to look after her and give birth to her offspring. Selfish right?

“Is there anything you're hiding from me?” ask Rara again to lure Reza into telling the truth. Perhaps, if Reza were to be honest and apologize, Rara would be willing to accept this fact.

Reza shook his head. “No.”

“Really?” asked Rara again staring at the two brown beads.

Reza is very smart to cover up his lies. Those eyes really hinted that he wasn't lying. Reza's eyes looked at Rara with confidence.

“Nothing I'm hiding from you. My busyness is indeed due to unfinished factory problems.”

Finally, Rara gave up. He smiled bitterly. Turns out Reza is not a gentleman who will admit his mistake.

“Good.” Rara rubbed the remains of the tears still stuck to her cheeks.

He will follow the game of the husband. He remembered the words of Zayn. Yeah, if he doesn't hold on, then he'll go. If the strong survive, then he will survive and it all depends on Reza, the extent to which the man can defend it. He will no longer cry. Tonight was the last night she cried.

Rara laid her body back to Reza. “Come to sleep!”

Reza also positioned his body to sleep and hugged his wife from behind tightly. “I love you so much, darling.” whispered Reza right behind Rara's ears.

Rara was silent and did not answer. Usually he will reply to a love statement from the husband, but tonight his tongue is too weak to say it. Ever since she witnessed that painful scene, where is the love for her husband now?

Reza raises his head on the shoulder of the wife who fell asleep on her side, because not usually Rara did not return the statement of love. Then, he looked at Rara who had closed her eyes perfectly. He let out his breath again, Rara quickly fell asleep.

****

Chequelek

Reza's out of the bathroom. The sun began to shine on the earth. Before entering the bath, Reza woke up first and opened the windows there, so that the sun would shine on her room.

Reza looked at Rara who was sitting on the bed and leaned her body against the wall of the bed. He glanced at Rara who was engrossed in playing her phone while smiling.

Rara was there replying to Zayn's message.

Rara replied with a laughing emot. “Yes, here's the dry sludge on the cheek.”

Zayn replied with a laugh. “Crackers dong.”

“Ish, so slovenly.” Answer Rara.

“Ih, you're the ileran. How come I'm the one who says slovenly.”

“Zayn .. ugly.”

They reply to each other, until Rara forgets that the husband has come out of the bathroom and is glancing at him several times.

Even last night like that, Zayn gave the news that he had arrived at Lembang at midnight. Rara immediately woke up and picked up her phone which read. He let go of Reza's hand on his waist, then returned the message until he smiled to himself. Reza awoke to his wife's movements and took a quick look at what his wife was doing.

“My book has not been prepared?” ask Reza who made Rara flinch.

“Oh yes, sorry.” Rara immediately got out of bed and put down her original phone.

She immediately went to the closet and chose her husband's work clothes. Reza sat at the dresser while drying her hair. He kept watching his wife. When he woke up, he did not see his wife smiling at him. Rara's face was flat, the woman just smiled at her phone earlier.

Rara's appearance was very messy. He deliberately pulled out his hair and did not shower immediately. His face was natural without any polish. Usually when Rara wakes up immediately take a shower and dress up a little to please her husband. However, now he appears as it is, without fragrances in his body, this time Rara's body really smells his original body.

“You didn't shower right away?” asked Reza who was wearing the clothes that Rara had given her.

Rara also helped her husband button his shirt.

“Hmm .. malls. Wh why? Smell yes?” Rara kissed her left and right armpits.

“Jorok really you.”

Rara cuek and ignored the words of her husband. He left Reza there with the remaining two shirt buttons that have not been linked at the bottom.

Rara walked into the kitchen. He prepared coffee and warm sweet tea with lemon for himself.

Shortly after, Reza came out of the room and approached her. Before that, Reza picked up Rara's phone lying on the bed. He wanted to see the contents of the phone that made his wife smile from last night. However, Rara gave the code to her phone, even though during the time they were married and dating, Rara never had to password her phone at all. Unlike Reza who always password his phone.

Reza hugged Rara from behind. Rara looks serious about making coffee and lemon tea warm. Reza retraced the neckline, but Rara was evasive.

“I stink, Brother. Not shower.” Rara shifted away and immediately brought the two hot glasses to the dining table.

Rara put the two glasses on the table and shifted the chair, then sat down. “Sorry, I didn't prepare breakfast. Just coffee. I'm lazy to cook.”

Reza followed Rara and sat facing her. “Yes, it's okay. I have breakfast at the office.”

Reza took the cup and slightly shoved it. While Rara got up from the chair again to pick up her phone that was still in the room. Then he went back to the table and sat down in front of Reza.

“Oh yes, Papa arrived this morning.”

“Oh, yes? Who picked up Papa at the airport?” ask Rara.

“Supirku, because Papa went directly to the factory.”

Rara simply nodded and went back to playing her phone.

“Your phone in password?” ask Reza.

Rara lifted her head, looking at the face of the husband who was right in the epan. “Oh, yes. More wanted aja.”

“Why?” ask Reza. “Normally never.”

“Hmm ... again want aja,” replied Rara briefly and ambiguously.

Reza. Since last night a lot of weirdness happened to his wife. Until he left, Reza did not see the smile. Rara's face looks flat and ordinary when delivering herself at the front door. Normally, Rara waved with a sweet smile and said, “be careful, Brother.”

Everything Rara used to do to her, vanished since yesterday. Reza started thinking, Did Rara know about Manda and Noah? But that was impossible, because he closed the marriage neatly. No one knows the marriage between her and Manda, not even her own parents. Reza dismissed the thought, as he believed Rara was unaware of her second marriage to Manda and already had children.